Laszlo Bagi, the owner of one of two Boulder County pot businesses raided by federal agents this week, is also connected to marijuana licensing trouble in the city of Boulder.

Bagi owns the facility at 6859 North Foothills Highway where Drug Enforcement Administration and Boulder County sheriff's officials were seen Thursday morning piling up marijuana plants outside in the snow as they executed a search warrant.

Similar search warrants were executed at 11 other facilities and two homes in the Denver metro area as part of what the Department of Justice is calling an ongoing criminal investigation. Sources have said the investigation may be connected to a cartel in Colombia, according to the Denver Post.

James "Skip" Wollrab, an attorney for Bagi, said about $1 million of marijuana was taken from the North Foothills property. Wollrab said he still does not know the nature of the complaint against Bagi.

"We still don't even know what the case is about," Wollrab told the Camera on Friday.

Wollrab said there are other marijuana facilities Bagi owns in Commerce City that may be part of the investigation, and he is hoping to avoid having more plants seized in any future enforcement actions.

"I'm still trying to get a hold of the powers that be to negotiate whatever complaints they have without destroying more of (Bagi's) property," Wollrab said.

Wollrab has maintained that Bagi has done nothing wrong.

Department of Justice spokesman Jeff Dorschner said Thursday that authorities believe the targeted businesses may have violated more than one of a series of federal prosecution priorities. No arrests have been made.

Bagi referred all questions to Wollrab when reached by phone Friday.

According to court records, Bagi was arrested on suspicion of drug use and DUI in 1991 in Boulder and has also been involved in numerous civil suits -- many of them involving marijuana dispensaries -- in several counties in Colorado.

Although her name is not on the search warrant, Bagi's wife, Wendy, is on documents for a grow operation at the facility north of Boulder. Wendy Bagi could not be reached for comment Friday.

According to Boulder spokeswoman Sarah Huntley, the city revoked two wellness center licenses where Wendy Bagi was purported to be a business owner on May 14, 2012. The primary basis for revocation was unreported changes in ownership, according to Huntley.

The two dispensaries for which Wendy Bagi had her license revoked were Mountainside Wellness Center, 695 South Broadway, and Colorado Care, 250 Iris Ave. Colorado Care is now open under a different licensee.

Wendy Bagi does not now hold a medical marijuana license in the city.

Jeff Gard, a Boulder attorney who represents marijuana businesses, said he had seen Wendy Bagi's name on documents but never met her in person and always dealt with her husband. He also said, to his knowledge, they were not involved in advocacy or legislative efforts for the industry.

"My understanding is that they were primarily business owners, not marijuana legal advocates," he said.

Shawn Coleman, a Boulder-based consultant to the industry, said the same thing. Coleman said the fact that none of the names that have come up in the investigation were involved in advocacy efforts was a good thing.

"The people who are open about what they do at council meetings and at the legislative level, they are not getting raided," Coleman said. "They are engaged and are the type of business owners who want to see this program work, and I think that's an important part of the story. If everything is as it seems to be, that this was a long-term investigation that targeted them, that means the federal government is sticking to its word."

The Department of Justice said in August that it wouldn't stand in the way of votes in Colorado and Washington to legalize recreational pot, but warned there needed to be effective controls to keep marijuana away from children, the black market and federal property. The department has a list of eight areas of concern surrounding the drug that it has prioritized for enforcement.

The only other facility in Boulder County raided was Grateful Meds in Nederland.

Wollrab said Bagi does not own that business.

Denver attorney David Furtado -- one of the other nine people listed in the search warrant, along with Bagi -- is listed as a registered agent for Grateful Meds in state records.

Furtado's attorney, Stanley Marks, would not comment on whether Furtado was still the registered agent for the dispensary but said his client was not involved in any illegal activity.

"He wholeheartedly denies being involved in anything inappropriate or illegal," Marks said. "We are waiting for further information to ascertain any charges that are forthcoming."

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